Irish Left Archive

New document:

"Step Up the Mass Struggles Against Imperialism, Fascism and War!"

Voice of Revolution (Marxist-Leninist Weekly), Special Issue, December 21st – January 7th, 1983.

From the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7183/

#Ireland #Politics #History #VoiceOfRevolution #CPIML #Maoism

Published #OnThisDay 28th May 1973:

"Revolutionary Nationalism, Class Struggle, and Problems of Party Building in Ireland"

An article by Gerry Foley on the Official Republican movement for Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1488/

#Ireland #History #Politics #OTD #OfficialRepublicanism #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational

Published #OnThisDay: Workers' and Unemployed News, May 28th 1987

"All Working People Must Unite Against the Capitalist Offensive and Cut-Backs!"

From the Workers and Unemployed Movement.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6531/

#Ireland #History #Politics #OTD #WorkersAndUnemployedNews #WorkersAndUnemployedMovement

#OnThisDay in 1949, the Socialist Party of Ireland was founded:

On May 28th, 1949, a number of workers, representing Socialist Groups in Dublin and Belfast, met in Belfast and decided that the Groups should coalesce and form the Socialist Party of Ireland. That decision was subsequently ratified by the members of the Dublin and Belfast Groups; and so was born the first political party in Ireland to publicly and unequivocally declare its object to be the establishment of Socialism.

This Socialist Party of Ireland was associated with the SPGB and later became the World Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/28/#event-4500

#Ireland #History #Politics #SocialistParty #WorldSocialism #SPGB #OTD

#OnThisDay 28th of May 1912, the Irish Labour party was founded.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/organisation/210/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Labour

New additions to the collection:

Stickers from Éirígí campaigns.

Break the Connection With Capitalism: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7174/

Up Housing: Universal Public Housing: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7175/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Éirígí #Housing #Capitalism

#OnThisDay 25th May 2018, the referendum to repeal the 8th amendment of the Irish constitution was passed, removing the barrier to abortion provision in the country.

You can see a number of documents from the campaign in our collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3762/

#Ireland #Politics #Referendums #Repeal #Repealed

New episode of the Irish Left Archive Podcast:

We discuss the new volume, Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from below, 1917–1923, with John Cunningham and Terry Dunne.

This edited volume looks at regional and local case studies during the revolutionary period, highlighting the widespread radicalism – beyond the national independence movement – that flourished around Ireland at the time in land and housing action, labour mobilisation and trade unionism.

https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/spirit-of-revolution-ireland-from-below-19171923

#Ireland #Podcast #History #Politics

#OnThisDay 24th May 2007 a general election took place in Ireland.

Documents on the election in our collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3348/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Elections

Published #OnThisDay 24th May 1967:

The Irish Student, from the Irish Student Movement.

The ISM was associated with The Internationalists, which later became the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/297/

#Ireland #History #Politics #IrishStudentMovement #CPIML #Maoism

Today marks the 9th anniversary of the 2015 #MarriageEquality referendum in Ireland, which removed blocks on same-sex marriage.

On the first anniversary, we featured a series of articles by @tomboktu@twitter.com looking at the evolution of the issue in Gay Community News.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/1989/

#LGBTQ #Ireland #Referendums #GayCommunityNews

#OnThisDay 22nd May 2015, the Marriage Equality referendum was carried in Ireland, removing barriers to same-sex marriage.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/5039/

#Ireland #History #Politics #Referendums #MarriageEquality

New documents:

Posters from the Anti-Austerity Alliance housing campaign, circa 2015.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7166/ https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7167/

#Ireland #Politics #Austerity #Housing #AntiAusterityAlliance

Published #OnThisDay 19th May 1973:

Republican News, Belfast paper of Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2388/

#Ireland #History #Politics #SinnFéin #RepublicanNews

"Labour Takes a Small Step Forward"

The Northern Star on the Northern Ireland local elections, which took place #OnThisDay 19th May 1993.

The Campaign for Labour Representation (CLR) ran 13 candidates, with Mark Langhammer being elected in Newtownabbey.

The Northern Star was produced by Athol Books, publisher of the British & Irish Communist Organisation, which supported the CLR.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2524/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Elections #Labour #BICO

Here's an index of leaflets for the forthcoming local elections on Irish Election Literature: https://irishelectionliterature.com/2024/05/14/index-of-2024-local-election-leaflets-le24/

Irish Election Literature is a great resource – if anyone has leaflets to fill some of the gaps, do get in touch.

#LE24 #Elections #Politics #Ireland

#OnThisDay 16th May 1920, workers at the Cleeves Creamery in Knocklong, County Limerick occupied the facility, raising a red flag and displaying a banner reading “Knocklong Soviet Creamery - We make butter, not profits”.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/16/#event-5766

#Ireland #History #Politics #Limerick #Knocklong

Published #OnThisDay, 14th May 1987:

An Phoblacht Republican News, Iml. 9, Uimh. 19

Newspaper of Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6722/

#Ireland #Politics #History #SinnFéin #Loughgall #AnPhoblacht #RepublicanNews